@article{ref1,
title="Upper cervical spinal cord gunshot injury without bone destruction",
journal="International journal of surgery case reports",
year="2014",
author="Seçer, Mehmet and Ulutaş, Murat and Yayla, Erdal and Cınar, Kadir",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="149-151",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: This report describes a rare case of the gunshot injury of the spine and spinal cord. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A rare case of the bullet lodged intra-durally in the upper cervical region without damaging the vertebrae or the spinal cord. The bullet was removed as microneurosurgical and duraplasty was performed. DISCUSSION: Surgical management of the gunshot wounds of the spine and spinal cord is not widely advocated and controversial. CONCLUSION: Advances in microneurosurgical instrumentation and microscopic techniques may open up a new era of surgical treatment of spinal cord gunshot wounds.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2210-2612",
doi="10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.01.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.01.009"
}